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A real-time capture log implies that your own life is the best source for inspiration; not feeds, articles, or encyclopedias. Having a public log chan

“Become a documentarian of what you do.”

“Most of all: the point is to aim for writing that enhances your feeling of aliveness, that lets you refine your thoughts about what matters, lets you

That means there are three main components to identify when looking at a system: the people, the interaction (i.e. the sharing of information), and th

Artists do not create contexts; they work within them. Context is the web of complex circumstances in which artists work in relation to their physical

Writing, journaling, filming... makes you slow down and notice. And when you step back and look at it all, you realize there was a story there all alo

Globally-networked localism • Design services will relocalize like farmers markets. • Communities will commission work face-to-face. “I’ll come to y

when all information is perfectly catalogued and perfectly analysed by perfect tools that present them perfectly to us at the perfect time in the perf

there’s no character trait more essential to individual and societal progress than agency. Agency is the embodied conviction that you have the power t

Another key fact is that agency isn't intrinsic to a system, but rather something we ascribe to it. It's a way of describing a system at the level of

Notes on “Taste”

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the universe, which runs through himself and all things.”—

In today’s world, where ideas are increasingly displacing the physical in the production of economic value, competition for reputation becomes a signi

But what we really need is a robust indie environment—in which many arts and culture businesses flourish and present their diverse offerings. Let a th

Personal branding isn’t about “look at me”, it’s about “look at this”

Decentralized investor communities gain traction in biotech

One thing that might surprise you about dominance is how companies get it. You might think it comes from rapacious win-at-all costs business practices

There’s this cool idea in software that you “ship your org chart” called Conway’s law: “Organizations, who design systems, are constrained to produce

What really broke down in Google’s original vision is the incentive system they were building towards. There is a very specific subset of information

PEOPLE IN SYSTEMS DO NOT DO WHAT THE SYSTEM SAYS THEY ARE DOING. University professors chase grants, not student enlightenment. VCs nurture personal b

In a model, agents are interchangeable. Consumer A and Consumer B have different preference curves, yes, but they respond to the same incentive struct

Decentralized investor communities gain traction in biotech

The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine

Productive Fees : Valuable Protocols / Extractive Fees : Valuable Companies

Metadata, Rights Infrastructure and AI Frameworks Are Slowing Innovation

That is organizational imagination at work: protecting an unfamiliar option long enough to tell the difference between a bad idea and an early one.